Watching: Well, now that we've finished the current season of The Blacklist (sob), we're re-watching Parks and Rec. April is still my spirit animal.
Listening to: The sound of a crazy downpour outside. It's been raining so hard all night and all day today, and I'm not normally a paranoid person, but I'm a little afraid of landslides these days. Did I mention that two years ago there was a landslide here that killed 3 people? And a month or so ago there was another huge landslide that blocked the road to our house and we were without power or a road into town for an entire day? Both landslides due to excessive rainfall in a short period of time. Like today...
Wearing: A hoodie, because what else does a sane person wear when the baby's napping, it's pouring rain and there's a candle burning?
Smelling: These three candles on rotation. I highly recommend every single one if you're into fall/winter scents from Bath and Body Works. I do kinda wish the "But First! Coffee" one was a little classier looking and less cheesy, not to mention the weirdly placed exclamation point drives me a little bonkers, but whatever. The candle smells like a hot mocha, so I'm not too upset about it.
Loving: This picture of my daughter making flirty eyes at a teenage boy at a restaurant we were at this weekend. She does this hilarious thing where if she wants someone to look at her, she gives them this look and either blows spit bubbles or makes this "hehhhhhh" sound, like a half-laugh. It's hilarious and adorable and I want to bottle the sounds she makes so I can listen to them forever. God bless iPhone cameras.
I'm also loving how auburn her hair looks in this photo. I can't wait to see what color it ends up actually being...sometimes it looks medium brown indoors, but outside and in bright light there's definitely a ton of auburn/blonde in there.
Not Loving: How it doesn't matter how girly we dress Imogen, there's always someone who tells us what a cute little boy we have. The other day she was wearing pink and the lady at the post office asked me how old "he" is. Granted, her blanket was very gender-neutral and she had a Peter Rabbit stuffed animal with her, but still. It reminded me of an episode of The Office (as does just about everything in life)...I couldn't find a gif for it but it's the one where a new employee named Hannah transfers to Scranton and brings her son to work and dresses him in pink and when Pam says "she" is adorable, Hannah informs her that pink is "his favorite color." Office fans will know which episode I'm talking about.
Annoyed with: Babies R Us. I wanted to order a two-pack of leggings and a mirror toy for Imogen the other day and they wanted to charge me THIRTY DOLLARS to ship those three things here. I'm so blessed to have a mother who lets me ship whatever I want to her house (usually for free, because lower 48ers don't know how good they have it) so she can re-mail it for like five bucks.
Wanting: For some reason lately I'm kiiiiiiiiiind of wanting a Letterfolk board. I kind of hate how ridiculously popular they are and I'd totally be jumping on a bandwagon, but then I think of all the Office and Parks and Rec quotes I could put up and I think I might ask for one for Christmas.
Laughing at: This is me to a T. I will not, repeat will not parallel park. I've managed to avoid it ever since I failed miserably at it during my driving test when I was sixteen. Why start now?
Feeling: Anxious. Imogen's aunt and uncle (Isaiah's brother and sister-in-law) are coming over to babysit Imogen for a couple of hours while we go to the shooting range this afternoon. What if she cries and wonders why mommy and daddy aren't coming to rescue her? There are so many things that I scoffed at pre-child and now that I have a baby, I totally get it. A year ago I would have laughed at someone being so nervous to leave their baby for two hours with family. Now, that someone is me. I'll take that humble pie a'la mode, thanks.
Anticipating: Christmas. Yes, Christmas, and I realize it's not even November yet. But Imogen will be almost 6 months old, and I'm so excited to give her a few presents to open. I assume by then she'll actually be interested in playing with toys and not just slobbering all over them? We're also planning to visit my mom for Christmas (my first Christmas "home" since I moved to Alaska in 2009!) and take a couple of days to drive down to Oregon to introduce Imogen to her great-grandfather on Isaiah's side.
People called Reese a boy until she was about 14 months old and her hair finally started growing. It was SO ANNOYING and I complained about it daily to anyone who would listen. It was better when she still wore bows, but after that it was just inevitable that no matter how many flowers or pink or hearts were on her clothing, she was called a he, and now I refuse to use a pronoun in reference to anyone else's baby unless I am SURE I know if it's a boy or girl.
ReplyDeleteIt's so crazy how much places want to charge to ship things where you are!! Not cool but thank goodness for your mama!
ReplyDeleteI remember that episode! Hilarious.
ReplyDeleteLetterfolk boards are stupid expensive and I do feel a bit ashamed for following that trend, but it is SO FUN. I highly recommend it.
Haha I HATE parallel parking!!! I failed horribly every time I practiced before taking my drivers test. I ran over cones, backed into them, etc. Then I took my rest and got a 100% on parallel parking. I still don’t know what happened. I’ve only done it maybe twice since.
Haha I know exactly which episode you're talking about :)
ReplyDeleteI loathe parallel parking. The instructor didn't have me do it in my driving test, which was a relief then, but now I'm terrified to even try.
I am so excited for Christmas this year too--I can't even wait to watch Jackson experience all of fun. We are doing the opposite and spending the first Christmas in our own house since before we were married. To be honest, I'm really looking forward to it.
Get yourself that letterboard. I don't have a fancy brand, just a cheaper one I got through a groupdealz, but it's so so fun. I'm generally anti things that are super popular but the letter boards are worth the hype.
ReplyDeleteAnnabelle was wearing a frilly butterfly print dress with big pink bow to church and an old man told me how cute "he" was. Some people miss the obvious clues!
I am totally in Christmas mode already...not really sure why, except this is the first Christmas since we moved here that we aren't hosting a VBS for 200 kids over Christmas break...so maybe it's just the first Christmas in a while where we can chill out and celebrate a little more. :P
ReplyDeleteI failed parallel parking in my driving test too, but it was the only thing, so I passed the test. My Mom has never parallel parked, which is an impressive feat considering we live in a crowded city with a lot of street parking. The other day Dad asked her to park the car in a certain area with only parallel parking and she was like, "No, I can't parallel park." And he was so surprised that she didn't know how to...and Mom's like...how does he not know this after 27 years?
For some reason I think hair/hair accessories are the key for strangers correctly identifying baby boys and girls. One of my little cousins was bald till she was four and people always thought she was a boy. We were babysitting a 9-month old boy yesterday and the family was joking about how much he looks like a girl because he has long wavy hair and ridiculously long eyelashes and big eyes--super, super cute, just not very boyish looking at this stage.
Looks like I'll be making trip to Bath and Body Works this. I need a mocha scented candle in my life, I just didn't know it until now!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the shout out! But more importantly, thanks for the stellar business cards!
I was just telling my dad yesterday how hard it is to find babysitters because my babies are precious to me and what if they don't understand their needs? Kids wreck you.
6 month olds are so fun at Christmas! They snuggle, they look cute, and they go to bed so you can do adult things, too. I have no idea how a one year old will do with all that tree temptation.